Officials say one person is dead after a gas line explosion and fire near Cleburne, Texas, about 80 kilometres southwest of Dallas. (CBC)
Monday, June 7th, at 2:40 p.m. a natural gas facility in Hood County, Texas exploded. (click title to entry - thank you) Ten people are missing and three died. The explosion was south of Granbury, near Pecan Plantation.
Durango Texas reports, "Firemen from 8 different fire departments have surrounded the site of the explosion. Parkland Hospital, in Dallas, is expecting burn victims to be brought to their specialist burn unit."
Fire crew will have to wait for the gas line to shut off and the fire to burn itself out. Smoke and flames from the fire can be seen for miles.
Company: Workers followed procedure before blast (link below)
By ANGELA K. BROWN (AP) – 2 hours ago
CLEBURNE, Texas — A utility crew that accidentally struck a natural gas line, sparking a fiery explosion that killed one worker, followed the proper procedures in locating the line before digging, a company official said Tuesday....
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i3fQFROi7EjjP1ifzux9UOPWFP8AD9G7B20G3
Oklahoma Man Dies In Texas Natural Gas Explosion
Posted: Jun 08, 2010 1:07 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 08, 2010 7:46 PM EDT
By Craig Day, The News On 6
RAMONA, OK -- A utility worker found dead several hours after a natural gas line erupted in north Texas is from Oklahoma.
The explosion killed 45-year-old James Neese, from Ramona. Neese leaves behind a wife and seven children, including a toddler and infant. Residents are saddened at the death of a hard working, family man.
While OSHA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators are working to find out how a utility crew ruptured a natural gas line, in Ramona people are saddened to hear the explosion killed one of their own....
http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=12614362
2 hurt in W.Va. well blast still hospitalized (link below)
06/08/2010
UDRL / Associated Press
Three more workers injured in a West Virginia drilling rig explosion have been released from the hospital, bringing the total to five.
By Tuesday afternoon, only two workers remained hospitalized. A spokeswoman for Dallas, Texas-based Chief Oil & Gas LLC says neither has life-threatening injuries.
Seven workers were hurt when a crew with Union Drilling struck a pocket of methane Monday in an abandoned coal mine near Moundsville. Union was drilling a natural gas well in the Marcellus shale formation for Chief.
Union is based in Fort Worth, Texas, but the crew was from Buckhannon. Union has refused comment except to say it's cooperating with investigators.
Chief spokeswoman Kristi Gittins says it's too soon to know how the methane ignited. The gas is still burning.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9G77NP82.html
Parkland Memorial Hospital Burn Unit is a busy place evidently.
Kitchen Explosion Injures Five At Texas Restaurant
One person was in critical condition Tuesday after an explosion in the kitchen of a Texas restaurant.
DALLAS (June 8, 2010)--A natural gas explosion Monday in the kitchen of a restaurant in Gainesville left one person in critical condition.
Parkland Memorial Hospital officials said Tuesday that four other people are in serious condition after the explosion around 4:30 p.m. Monday in the kitchen of a Mexican restaurant, El Taco Riendo.
Three women, a young girl and a toddler were flown to the hospital with burns after the blast.
Hospital officials would not say which victim is in critical condition.
Fire officials told The Dallas Morning News that they have not determined the cause of the explosion, but most of the damage occurred inside the building.
http://www.kwtx.com/news/headlines/95866449.html?ref=449
Yep.
